Welcome to the random rants from a redneck Boonie Chick from Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada. I wanted to start this blog on April first… to be the “fool” to start this “foolish” blog about nothing but as life would have it… got too busy and ran out of daylight or brain width.
Maybe I should start by defining the name “Boonie Chick” and how I got the name. The term “Boonie” has lots of meanings but the definition I derive from is The sticks, in the middle of no where. Usually associated with living out in the country e.g. Man, I live out in the boonies. It takes an hour an a half to get to the nearest gas station. Then, of course, “Chick” which is a non-derogatory slang term for the word girl.
So, when this country girl moved to the city of Dartmouth (population 65,000) which is across the harbor from Halifax the capital city of Nova Scotia with a population around 340,000 from a small town of 600 people… it was a big deal. I was born and raised on the Atlantic coast which was referred to the South Shore in a small town called Head of St. Margaret’s Bay. The bay was named after Samuel de Champlain's mother Marguerite. His map of 1612 shows the bay as St. Marguerite Baie. So growing up in spitting distance of the salt water to flats of McKinney Texas was a bit of a shock. This naive little girl from pokie dock nowhere got the nickname “Boonie Chick” after continually making errors on various topics of discussions. I do however, admit some found it cute and other I annoyed with my ignorance of the big city but I stayed true to my heritage… once a “sea-lover” always a “sea-lover” but I quickly learned the culture and tried to fit in to the hustle and bustle of the city life.
Prepare yourself for some comedy that only I laugh at and pointless to everyone else, but I manage to keep myself amused. So, thank you for reading my history blur and come back often to view life “according to me”. Cheers to my friends and future acquaintances and “Piss-off” to the old lady who gave me the-finger to me for being polite and letting an extra car merge into my lane today.
